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By ...JUST A THOUGHT!

October 16, 2007 5:24 PM | Link to this

You had me there for a second :) I almost started believing again myself, THEN I remembered who our head coach was. The guy that loves to squander talen’t, stick it on the bench and watch it dissappear. The only guy who could take the GREATEST reciever(CJ) ever to come through GT and make him look average. We love you Chan!!

By March Madness Man

October 16, 2007 5:38 PM | Link to this

Matt- Great points. I’m one of the eternal optimists as well. I still think the Jackets have a shot at winning the Coastal. Clearly it’s a dire longshot, but you have to assume UVA will be an underdog in its two road games (Maryland and Miami), and has two tough home games (Va Tech and Wake). Throw in a road game at NC State, which could be tricky, and it’s not a Stanford over USC stretch to think UVA may get the needed four losses. Va Tech may be the tougher obstacle, but if the Jackets win the big Thursday nighter, then Va Tech needs to find two more losses among the three home games against difficult foes (Miami, FSU, and BC). A happy dream, to be sure, but one I’m not giving up on.

By Chan Gailey

October 16, 2007 7:03 PM | Link to this

“When Pigs Fly, Matt … When Pigs Fly”

Don’t get your hopes up Tech-nation, I’m as predictable as 2 dimes & a nickle.

Warmest Regards, Chan

By Chan B. Gone

October 16, 2007 7:08 PM | Link to this

Like my nephew told me—Tech fans are looking at the “best-worst” case senario: We win out and get to keep Chan (ugh!). But, regardless of what happens through the rest of this season, we need a new coach!

By GM

October 16, 2007 7:14 PM | Link to this

UVA must lose 4 times and Tech must win out in conference, among other things, for this to happen. Possible yes, but extremely unlikely.

By elijah

October 16, 2007 7:48 PM | Link to this

Has anyone heard a rumor about Jimbo Fisher, and next year?

By son_sir

October 16, 2007 8:02 PM | Link to this

I have the scenario I’m most interested in.. forget about all that crap and focus 100% on the next opponent and go out and win the d#mn ballgame. Period.

By LongBeachJacket

October 16, 2007 8:07 PM | Link to this

Matt, I’m glad D. Richard is optimistic. It’s good to hear that from one of the key players.

The strong likelihood is that we aren’t going to win the Coastal. That dream faded greatly when T. Bell’s kick sailed wide in College Park. (Shame he had to attempt it…we’ve beat that one to death.) At 2 losses it was questionable, with 3 it’s near impossible. Time to move on….

There are still big games to be played. The only thing for this team to do is go out and WIN. Just WIN!! It’s just that simple. That’s the goal every week…no matter the opponent. If they do that, each win will make the pain of missed opportunities fade more and more. They just have to take’m one at a time. Play hard 60 minutes EVERY GAME. No letdowns, no taking quarters off, no egregious mental mistakes.

See you Sat at The Dodd…

By RWfromGT

October 16, 2007 8:37 PM | Link to this

Tech does not need UVA to lose 4 games in order to win the Coastal. If GT beats VT and VT beats UVA and all teams get 3 losses, then there would be a three way tie. I don’t know what the tie break system is, but the head to head would be a wash and GT would have a shot.

“If ifs and buts were candy and nuts…”

By Navigator

October 16, 2007 8:43 PM | Link to this

Winklejohn has lost his mind, when he writes an article like this. If, if, and if, doesn’t make champions. Tech could have beaten Virginia and didn’t, Tech should have beaten Maryland, but blew if at the end. This is a damaged team, with no clear direction, and maybe no real leadership. Now that would be an article with some meat.

By Wehunt

October 16, 2007 9:01 PM | Link to this

make CJ look average? who the hell did you watch over the past 3 years.

By The Big Bug

October 16, 2007 11:34 PM | Link to this

Yes, it is true.Gailey might win GT an ACC championship. Then a NC this year. The moon also might be made of green cheese.

By CW

October 16, 2007 11:54 PM | Link to this

Some of you guys should lighten up. We all know it’s a long-shot, but the point is that Tech has already faced some of their toughest challenges this season while UVa and VT still have the meat of their conference schedules ahead of them.

Hate to be overly optimistic about a Jekyll and Hyde team, but against Miami the Jackets probably played their most complete game of the season since ND. Now we get a less-competitive team at home and a week off before VT. The timing is good both to get some players well (O-line mainly) as well as continue working on the passing game (could we find an old can of stick-um for some of our receivers?).

Sure, we all wish we didn’t already have three conference losses, but we do. I’d much rather look forward to the possibilities for the rest of the season than keep whining about the ones that got away. That kind of rear view thinking, along with evaluating the coaches, is better done after the season.

By Jeff

October 17, 2007 4:21 AM | Link to this

Georgia Tech = “Tech” Virginia Polytechnic = “VPI”

Seriously…

By one at a time

October 17, 2007 7:39 AM | Link to this

Tech plays Army this week —nothing else matters.

By the way —VT will only lose two conference games —Gt blew it when we lost to UVA.

By one at a time

October 17, 2007 7:39 AM | Link to this

Tech plays Army this week —nothing else matters.

By the way —VT will only lose two conference games —GT blew it when we lost to UVA.

By JustMe

October 17, 2007 7:59 AM | Link to this

As a big time and long time Tech fan, I would prefer for the following to play out….

We lose every remaining game on the schedule except UGAY. Then, fire Chan. Then, hire our defensive coordinator as head coach.

Start fresh for next year with a new offensive scheme - one that is for the college level and aimed at getting the most out of college kids.

By Optimistic

October 17, 2007 8:19 AM | Link to this

If GT wins the Coastal, then UGA wins the SEC East….not happenin’

By firechangailey.com

October 17, 2007 8:20 AM | Link to this

Wow - does the school pay you to be this optimistic? No way a school like VT loses 3 games this year. I would give you 600 to 1 odds we don’t make it. Contact me if you’d like to make a wager.

Chan Gailey will disappoint, and even if he didnt if we made it to the ACCCG with our conference record it would just serve to make the conference look bad.

http://www.firechan.com http://www.firechangailey.com Fire Chan Gailey Now!

By Gailey Can't Coach

October 17, 2007 8:49 AM | Link to this

WHAT?!?! You mean GT still has a shot at winning the Coastal Division? Now this is something that Chan Gailey simply won’t tolerate! When this guy opens his mouth, is there any question that GT is being coached by, not Dumb or even Dumber…But by DUMBEST:

You haven’t won two straight games since the opening of the year. Do you need to put some games together?

“That’s the plan. You just can’t sit here and say you’re going to do it. We want to win one more in a row. You can’t win two in a row unless you’ve won one in a row. We’ve won one in a row, now the goal is to win two in a row. If we can find a way to win this one, then our goal will be to win three in a row. That’s just the way it works.”

The reason he is WRONG for GT is because he’s the biggest idiot in every locker room meeting, and the players know it…

By Joe Colvin

October 17, 2007 8:52 AM | Link to this

Matt, Could positive article and you still generated a lot of comment.

Joe Colvin

By m

October 17, 2007 9:32 AM | Link to this

If we didn’t have the sorriest excuse for a coach in the history of college football, Chan Gailey, we wouldn’t be in this mess. If any decent coach had this team, we would win the coastal division easily. FIRE CHAN TODAY!!!

By GT80

October 17, 2007 10:08 AM | Link to this

All you Chan bashers, (and I’ve been one of them) thankfully the players don’t listen to you.

But let’s say ya’ll get your wish and Chan gets canned after the season. Who is going to be the next coach? Do you realize that there are going to be some very high profile jobs opening up out there, say Michigan, Nebraska, Texas A&M, Arkansas, maybe Auburn, maybe LSU. I’m sorry to say but we are behind all of those schools when it comes to plum coaching jobs. Do you think we are going to get the guys from South Florida or Rutgers, or anywhere else for that matter.

If we finish this year 7-5 then I’m disgusted with Chan, but who are we going to get to replace him? If we go 9-3, which is very doable, then I think we should all be happy to have a coach and staff that is in place and has never had a losing season and has been to a bowl game every year.

But I’d like to hear who all of you think should be our coach. Don’t just say we need to get rid of Chan, have an idea of who will be better(and don’t just say “anybody will be better”).

By Chris

October 17, 2007 10:27 AM | Link to this

Just win. That’s all we can do at this point. The rest is all up to that cruel mistress, Fate.

Honestly, I’d love to see a spread option package next year with Nesbitt as the starting QB. When your the QB can fly and has power, the RBs are good, and the receivers somewhat questionable, the option is…well…a good option.

By mr waterfowl

October 17, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this

somebody get Coach O’leary on the phone,tell him all is forgiven,come on home son

By da boze

October 17, 2007 10:44 AM | Link to this

To GT 80

I think we should go after Paul Johnson and his entire staff at Navy. He had a very successful tenure at Georgia Southern (Braine should have hired him then). He turned around a moribund program at Navy with severe limitations on his recruiting. He consistently wins over the other military schools and does well against other highly rated opponents. He is a motivator. He never says things like “hopefully” or “if I knew what was wrong I would fix it.”

By ...JUST A THOUGHT!

October 17, 2007 11:14 AM | Link to this

I will be the first to go with hmm…?? ANYBODY!! After seeing this dried up bum call for vanilla attack one after the other, yea Anybody will do, But to name a few, how about Chuck Amatto, John Tanuta, John Bond, some one with a little imagination and BALLS. O’leary please come back!!

By jollygoodfellows

October 17, 2007 11:17 AM | Link to this

how bobby petrino, he got screwed by the falcons, has already moved his family to atlanta and is genius college football coach. look at louisville without him, back to ho-hum. He takes every ounce of talent and maximizes it for the good of the team. He even makes Joey Harrington look mediocre and we all know he’s really awful.

By CW

October 17, 2007 11:27 AM | Link to this

Just Me, you can’t seriously want your team to lose four of the next five games. Stop rooting against the coach and remember why you are a Tech fan in the first place.

All this “can Chan” stuff is getting old and makes our fans look childish. We’re all disappointed that we’ve lost to inferior teams, but this team can’t quit and won’t quit on the rest of the season and neither should the fans.

None of us know if Tech will get on a roll and win the next five, but it sure would be a lot of fun to watch this team put all the pieces together and start whipping some folks.

By BobinBuford

October 17, 2007 11:31 AM | Link to this

Chuck Amato - right!!! He did such a bang up job at NC State, didn’t he??? And he had Phillip Rivers!!!!

GT80 is right - we are not going to be able to throw a bunch of money at some “big” coach with all the other vacancies there will be at the end of the year.

By firechangailey.com

October 17, 2007 11:44 AM | Link to this

CW-

It’s not going to look childish when you see a plane flying over GT Campus for one of the last 3 games of the year to Fire Gailey!

I root for us to win though at all times, but our coach is full of sh!t.

http://www.firechan.com http://www.firechangailey.com

By Seymore

October 17, 2007 11:47 AM | Link to this

Yes, we’ve had a couple of disappointing losses, and yes you can perhaps pin one or both of them on the coach. But I remember the Bill Curry and Bill Lewis days, and believe me when I say compared to those old days, GT football looks exciting again.

Lighten up on Chan. He’s doing a whale of a job recruiting. We contend almost every game, week in and week out. And don’t think a conservative defense playing coach can’t win a championship. How many games did Dodd win by turning the field over to his defense?

Personally, I hope they keep Chan on board until we are certain we have another Boddy Dodd to replace him.

By Dodd Disciple

October 17, 2007 11:47 AM | Link to this

I think articles like this are pointless. We haven’t put together two solid halves of football yet, and people want to discuss championship appearance possibilities. That like saying G W Bush is only 32% points from having a positive approval rating.

Lets keep things in perspective…win this week and then focus on VT!

By Gailey Can't Coach

October 17, 2007 11:59 AM | Link to this

GT80: Sorry, but anybody would be a better head coach than Chan Gailey. Case in point: Last year it looked like talent might actually win out over inept coaching with Tech finding its way to the ACC Championship Game. Aside from the fact that neither team could find a way to score a TD in their biggest game of the year, what did our bonehead coach do with Tech down 9-6 with 2 mins left in the game and in a critical 4th down situation — Chan Gailey PUNTS AWAY the ACC Championship!

I don’t care WHAT he does during the rest of his time at GT — That was just an UNFORGIVEABLE DECISION by a head coach…It wasn’t FAIR to the players, other coaches and, most of all, the FANS. One team has to lose…But if it has to be us, at least go down swinging instead of just GIVING THE GAME/CHAMPIONSHIP AWAY!

The problem is Gailey ALWAYS coaches like that…There is no shortage of losses that can be traced directly to his coaching decisions in the final minutes. Some call it “coaching not to lose”…I call it coaching not to win. With a few minutes left in a close game, Gailey dreams up ONE IMAGINED OUTCOME where Tech wins and is too inflexible to recognize any other opportunities/situations that present themselves. That single-mindedness inflexibility + overly-conservative play = Tech losses that should be wins. Rinse and repeat, year after year.

I thought I’d never say this, but Nix pulled a page right out of Gailey’s final possession playbook at Miami…UM, down by 3 gets the ball back with 7:34 to play on its own 12. Play calling? Rush for 3 yd gain, Rush for NO GAIN, Rush for NO GAIN, PUNT. Even Gailey has a hard time losing when the opposition’s coaches have less of a will to win.

There are numerous possibilities for replacing Gailey…Experienced NFL coaches (Steve Mariucci, Dennis Green), aggressive college coaches (Chris Petersen - earning LESS than Gailey, Jerry Moore - knows how to USE talent to win) even Tenuta has paid enough dues to coach from the sidelines instead of the box (but will happen somewhere besides Tech).

ANYBODY can easily OUTCOACH Gailey by just letting him LOSE…And that leaves a HUGE Universe of potential Tech head coaches once Gailey is gone. But as long as Gailey wins half his games, he’s here until 2012.

REPLACING Gailey is the EASY part…Getting rid of him is the practically impossible task.

By Tony A

October 17, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this

Basically, all we can do is hope for the best and prepare for the worst.If is meant to be it will happen.Just being a realist.

By A. Tebbano

October 17, 2007 12:24 PM | Link to this

If there is a 3 way tie with UVA, VT and GT (all with 3 conference losses) how do the tie breakers work?

What about a 4 way tie if you include Miami?

I think since 2 of our losses are not in-division, this helps us if we are in a 3 way tie break situation since I think divisional record is the first tie breaker.

I’m a Tech fan till the end - and I don’t mind Chan - you can blame him for the BC Game plan maybe, but you can’t blame him for miscues in the UVA and UMD games - the players need to be better than getting penalties and avoiding turnovers in crucial situations - admittedly some of this falls on coaching, but players should know better than picking up a holding penalty on 3rd down when trying to set up for a field goal (for instance). And in both those games we scored 23+ points which historically with a Tenuta defense would be more than enough to win. There is plenty of blame to go around here and Chan is just one slice of the pie.

By sonny

October 17, 2007 12:39 PM | Link to this

Sounds like Gailey is afraid to play somebody. Us UGA fans like our opponent to be up, not down when we play them. That way if we win it actually means something. If ya’ll want to play Samford 4 times a year, why are we still on the schedule? Good luck vs. Army. Are they down this year?

By Big Ron

October 17, 2007 12:46 PM | Link to this

Tech has 2 major problems these reasons are why tech wont and probably never win a national championship ever the coach he is not great he can recruit but he cant coach any coach that would stick with reggie fall for 4 yrs doesn’t need to coach anywhere and second they dont have a quarterback they havent had one since joe hamilton this one they have this bennett he sucks he is no better then reggie fall they should just start nesbitt at least he can run and college that can win a lot of games trust me if tech can find a quarterback and get rid of chan (cant coach) gailey especially in the ACC i believe we can challenge for a title every year sure wish we could have got butch davis or nick saban they can recruit and coach.

By Sirius Black

October 17, 2007 12:46 PM | Link to this

Tech is always looking at the best-worst case senario since the Hee-Haw looking Chanster came to the Flats. His coaching “ability” is consistently dependent upon other teams in the conference losing and greasing the tracks for Tech to slide into so called winning positions. Yeah buddy, everybody is at fault except for the Hee-Haw looling Chanster.

By John

October 17, 2007 12:50 PM | Link to this

I said it after the UVA loss and again after the MD loss - could care less about all remaining games EXCEPT UGA. Just beat them once and for all!!! Geesh - enough is enough Chan!!! Who cares about the other games!?

By BobinBuford

October 17, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this

Sonny:

So how far up are Western Carolina and Troy these days??

By sonny

October 17, 2007 1:16 PM | Link to this

BobinBuford We aren’t the ones afraid to play Louisville. Why don’t you look up UGA’s future schedules and you will see that we will play at least one quality team other than tech to go along with our tough (tech knows because they were afraid to rejoin) SEC slate.

By sonny

October 17, 2007 1:20 PM | Link to this

By the way, Troy scares me a little bit. They are talented enough to take down a good team that doesn’t show up to play. Which happens more than I would like to admit at UGA.

By KneeJerk

October 17, 2007 1:40 PM | Link to this

It seems to me that if you got the “elite” recruits that UGA gets that you would play similar schools around the country. UGA can brag about a tough non-conference schedule when they play schools like Ohio State, USC, Texas. Don’t brag about a tough non-conference schedule when your opponent is still the underdog. Granted Arizona State is having a fine season, and Colorado can UPSET you, but these are games that a “quality SEC team” should win.

By allenlaw

October 17, 2007 1:41 PM | Link to this

Hmm, let’s see. Tech has lost three games, including one to Virginia. Virginia and VaTech have five conference games left, therefore Virginia would have to lose four out of five and VaTech would have to lose three out of five, with one of the losses being to Georgia Tech. In the meantime, Tech has to win out.

Dream on.

By March Madness Man

October 17, 2007 1:43 PM | Link to this

Hey firechangailey.com, I’ll take you up on that 600-1 shot. I’ll wager ten bucks, we on?

By Sirius Black

October 17, 2007 1:57 PM | Link to this

Firechangailey.com is right. There is nothing childish about being a mediocre program year in year out. The Hee-Haw looking Chanster has wasted more talent and has run off more talent than shoud be allowed. We all want Tech to win,but there is a big gap we need to close for Tech to be the team that can be in all games until the end. I thank you,firechangailey.com, for your and others committment for Tech to be even better. THWG!

By sonny

October 17, 2007 2:13 PM | Link to this

I wasn’t trying to brag about who we play. I was just wondering how a Tech fan feels about the coach openly admiting that he wishes to play bad teams?!?!? Most coaches want to play good opponents to toughen the team up. Not cupcakes week in and week out to pad up some W’s.

By old gold engineer

October 17, 2007 2:37 PM | Link to this

sonny, I would disagree with your statement about coaches not wanting to play “cupcakes”. I would argue that the fans are the ones that don’t want to play easy teams. The fans would like every game to be against a reputable opponent, but I think most coaches (and AD’s) like the easier teams and more likely wins. Unfortunately, I suppose the current economics dictate the scheduling moreso than what the fans would like to see. By the way, I don’t blame you for being concerned with Troy. That could be very ugly if your team isn’t ready.

By firechangailey.com

October 17, 2007 2:47 PM | Link to this

A. Tebbano:

http://www.theacc.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/082105aad.html

http://www.firechangailey.com

By firechangailey.com

October 17, 2007 3:04 PM | Link to this

Georgia Tech’s best hope of getting to the ACC championship game is to win the rest of its league games to post a 5-3 conference record, have Virginia and at least one other Coastal Division team also finish 5-3 and have the other 5-3 Coastal team defeat Virginia. That would negate Virginia’s head-to-head win against Georgia Tech and result in other tiebreakers deciding the Coastal Division champ.

So really we need both VT AND UVA to finish 5-3. It is a possibiltiy for UVA but I can’t see VT losing 3 more games, much less 3 ACC games. (of course we still need to beat VT too - we lose that game and it’s over).

http://www.firechangailey.com

By Gailey Can't Coach

October 17, 2007 3:27 PM | Link to this

Name That Game:

CHAN GAILEY: Obviously, it’s my responsibility to get this football team ready to play, and we didn’t do well enough today to win the ball game. Now, that’s what we’ve got, that’s what we came down here was to win the ball game, whatever it took. And we didn’t get ready to play and that’s my responsibility. Any questions?

Anyone following Tech Football since Chandler Gailey took over in 2002 KNOWS that this post-game quote could’ve been taped and replayed by Gailey many times…At least 3 times already this year (BC, UVA, MD). But this quote followed what was arguably Gailey’s BIGGEST GAME at GT: The ACC Championship Game last year.

How can anyone ever have high expectations for a head coach who can’t motivate his players for a game this big??? Funny how he blames the loss on “the players” not playing well enough but doesn’t mention how he punted the Championship right into the hands of Jim Grobe…And making him ACC Coach of the Year in the process.

By wes

October 17, 2007 3:41 PM | Link to this

We have the talent….why did we not beat Boston Col., Va and Maryland?

I’m a die hard fan but I’ll be happy if we beat UNC and shocked if we beat Ugag this year…… we need a new coach or he needs to change his old ways.

By bill

October 17, 2007 6:50 PM | Link to this

Chan is a nice man, but Troy Aikman only said he’s the worst coach he ever played under. Well, for Tech, you know they will beat 1 or 2 teams a year who they should lose to…and lose 1-2 they should beat. He isn’t horrible…remember Coach Lewis anyone??/…but he will never take Tech to where it should be. Example…on Sat, he ignores challenging obvious fumble that gives ball back to Tech. Result: Miami scores 3 plays later.Could have very well cost Tech the game. Against Md, he plays not to lose despite Bennent playing his best in the 4th quarter. Result: Tech has to make 50 plus FG to win. Bond may be calling the plays, but Chan dictates the situation. Again, a nice, good man who will never get Tech over the top. Until he leaves, we will always make a Bowl, never win a championship. MEDIOCRITY!!!!